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The Tobu Kinugawa Line (東武鬼怒川線, Tōbu Kinugawa-sen) is a 16.2 km (10.1 mi) long Japanese railway line from Shimo-Imaichi Station to Shin-Fujiwara Station in Nikkō, Tochigi. It is owned and operated by the private railway operator Tobu Railway.
At Shimo-Imaichi Station it connects with the Tobu Nikko Line. At Shin-Fujiwara Station it connects with the Yagan Railway Aizu Kinugawa Line. Some trains goes beyond the Aizu Kinugawa Line terminus at Aizu-Kōgen Oze-guchi Station onto the Aizu Railway Aizu Line.
The line runs surcharged, reserved-seat limited express services from and to Asakusa and Shinjuku in Tokyo.
The whole line is electrified at 1,500 V DC, but it is single tracked except for a 0.8 km (0.50 mi) double-tracked section at Kinugawa-Onsen Station.




Stations


All stations are located within Nikkō, Tochigi.




History


1915: Fujiwara Tramway (藤原軌道株式会社, Fujiwara Kidō Kabushiki-gaisha) was licensed to build a 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge steam-hauled tramway. It was renamed Shimotsuke Tramway (下野軌道株式会社, Shimotsuke Kidō Kabushiki-gaisha) in the same year.
2 January 1917: A 3.6-mile (5.8 km) section from Daiya-gawa Hokugan Station to Kinugawa Nangan Station was opened. The line was extended a further 2.5 miles (4.0 km) the same year.
March 1919: Ōhara Station to Shimotaki Station section was opened.
October 1919: Daiya Mukō Imaichi Station to Shin-Imaichi Station section was opened.
1 January 1920: Shimotaki Station to Fujiwara Station section was open to complete the whole 10.9-mile (17.5 km) line.
6 June 1921: The company name was renamed Shimotsuke Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (下野電気鉄道株式会社, Shimotsuke Denki Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha).
9 March 1922: The whole line was electrified at 600 V DC.
April 1927: The corporate headquarters was relocated to the Tobu Railway headquarters in Tokyo.
22 October 1929: 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge operation began on all the line.
1931: The voltage was raised to 1,500 V.
1 May 1943: Shimotsuke Electric Railway was bought out by Tobu Railway. The line became Tobu Kinugawa Line.
9 October 1986: Yagan Railway Aizu Kinugawa Line through service began.
12 October 1990: Aizu Railway Aizu Line through service to Aizu Tajima Station began.
18 March 2006: New Kinugawa services to/from Shinjuku commence.
From 17 March 2012, station numbering was introduced on all Tobu lines, with Tobu Kinugawa Line stations adopting the prefix "TN" in orange.
A new station, called Tobu World Square Station, opened between Kosagoe and Kinugawa-Onsen on 22 July 2017 to serve the nearby Tobu World Square theme park. From this date, Tobu World Square Station was numbered "TN-55", and the station numbers for Kinugawa-Onsen to Shin-Fujiwara were adjusted on 21 April 2017, ahead of the opening.




Future developments






= Steam-hauled services

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Tobu has leased former JNR Class C11 steam locomotive C11 207 from JR Hokkaido for use on the 12.4 km section of the Kinugawa Line between Shimo-Imaichi and Kinugawa-Onsen stations from 10 August 2017. Turntables will also be installed at Shimo-Imaichi and Kinugawa-Onsen to turn the locomotive in service. A two-stall engine shed is also being constructed for the steam loco at Shimo-Imaichi.




See also


List of railway lines in Japan




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Tobu Railway
• Stasiun Asakusa (Tokyo Metro, Toei, Tobu)
• Stasiun Ikebukuro
• Stasiun Shin-Takatoku
• Stasiun Shinjuku
• Tobu Kinugawa Line
• Tōbu Nikkō Line
• Tobu Railway
• Kinugawa Line
• Kinugawa–Onsen Station
• Kinugawa Onsen
• Kinugawa (train)
• Yagan Railway
• Tobu World Square Station
• Tobu 100 series